Events & Gatherings

Festival Chugoku I

Daily

Iwami Kagura

Across the Iwami region of western Shimane (Hamada, Masuda, Oda and others)

Serpents writhe across the entire stage. In the Iwami region of western Shimane, performers in dazzling masks and embroi

Market Chugoku K

Every 1th Sun

Kurashiki Tenryo Morning Market

Around the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, Honmachi, Kurashiki, Okayama

In a town of white walls, a morning market sets up. Kurashiki in Okayama prospered in the Edo period as a tenryo, a terr

Workshop Chugoku H

Daily

Hagi Ware Climbing Kiln Experience

Hagi, Yamaguchi

One of the vessels most loved by tea masters. Hagi in Yamaguchi is the home of Hagi ware, long held in high regard in th

Festival Chugoku T

毎年7月

Tsuwano Sagi-mai: The Heron Dance

Yasaka Shrine, Tsuwano, Kanoashi, Shimane

Two men dressed as white herons enter the stream that runs through the center of Tsuwano. Their wings open slowly as the

Festival Chugoku T

毎年6月第1金・土・日

Toka-san: Hiroshima's First Yukata Festival

Enko-ji Temple, Nakaku, Hiroshima

June arrives in Hiroshima wearing a yukata. The Toka-san festival — centered on Enko-ji Temple and spreading through the

Market Chugoku D

毎朝（通年）

Dogo Onsen Morning Market

Dogo Yunomachi, Matsuyama, Ehime

Dogo Onsen is one of the oldest hot springs in Japan — old enough to appear in the Man'yoshu poetry anthology, old enoug

Market Chugoku M

4月〜11月の毎週日曜（早朝）

Matsue Morning Market: Mist on the Canal

Along Fukuro River, Matsue City, Shimane

The mist from Lake Shinji moves through Matsue before the city wakes. Matsue is built on water — canals, the Ōhashi Rive

Market Chugoku K

毎月第1日曜

Kurashiki Bikan Quarter Craft Market

Honmachi, Kurashiki City, Okayama

Kurashiki's Bikan district is one of Japan's most photographed historic streetscapes — white-walled warehouses reflected

Market Chugoku H

不定期（月1〜2回）

Hiroshima Asagiri Bridge Flea Market

Along Motoyasu River, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City

The market runs along the Motoyasu River, within sight of the Atomic Bomb Dome. This proximity is not ironic; it is simp

Gathering Chugoku I

通年（2〜4月初旬に架け替えあり）

Iya Kazurabashi: The Vine Bridge of the Hidden Valley

162-2 Zentoku, Nishi-Iyayama, Miyoshi City, Tokushima

The bridge is made entirely of mountain vines, woven and suspended over a gorge that drops fourteen meters to the river

Gathering Chugoku I

旧暦10月（神在月）

Izumo Taisha: The Month When All Gods Arrive

195 Kizukihigashi, Taisha-cho, Izumo City, Shimane

In the tenth month of the lunar calendar, Japan's eight million gods converge on Izumo. The rest of the country calls th

Gathering Chugoku M

旧暦6月17日（毎年）

Miyajima Kangen-sai: Court Music on the Sea

Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima, Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima

The deity of Itsukushima Shrine travels by boat. On the evening of the Kangen-sai, a procession of vessels carrying musi

Workshop Chugoku I

通年（各体験施設による）

Imabari Towel: Dyeing at the Source of Japan's Finest Cotton

Imabari City, Ehime

Imabari produces more towels than anywhere else in Japan, and has been producing them since the late nineteenth century

Residency Chugoku O

通年

Ohnan: Where Japan's Countryside Is Trying Something New

Ohnan Town, Ochi-gun, Shimane

Ohnan Town in the mountains of Shimane has a population under ten thousand and a food-based regeneration strategy that h

Residency Chugoku H

通年

Hagi: Living in the Town That Made Modern Japan

Hagi City, Yamaguchi

The men who made the Meiji Restoration were disproportionately from Hagi. Yoshida Shoin, whose private academy produced

Festival Chugoku D

毎年8月第3土曜

Daisen Hi Matsuri: Fire at the Foot of the Sacred Mountain

Around Daisen-ji Temple, Daisen Town, Saihaku-gun, Tottori

Daisen is the highest mountain in the Chugoku region — a dormant volcano with a shape that has led it to be called the F

Festival Chugoku H

毎年12月第4土曜

Hofu Hadakamairi: Bare-Chested Pilgrimage in Midwinter

Hofu Tenmangu Shrine, Hofu City, Yamaguchi

On the fourth Saturday of December, after midnight, men in white loincloths and bare feet walk the approach to Hofu Tenm

Festival Chugoku M

2026年8月中旬（例年8月）

Matsuyama Festival Fireworks

Shigenobu River, Matsuyama, Ehime

In the town of the Dogo hot spring, you watch the fireworks. Matsuyama, the largest city on Shikoku, is home to Dogo Ons

craft Chugoku K

通年（要予約・筆の里工房）

Kumano Fude Brush-Making Experience

Fude no Sato Kobo, Kumano, Hiroshima

These are the brushes that touch the world's faces. Kumano, a small town in the hills of Hiroshima, produces eighty perc

Gathering Chugoku I

石見地方（浜田・益田など）で、神社の祭礼や定期公演として夜を中心に上演されます。日程は会場により異なります。

Iwami Kagura Regular Performances

They dance all night. Iwami Kagura comes from the western end of Shimane, and it is at once a sacred rite and pure ente

Festival Chugoku W

毎年12月第1日曜

Waraiko Laughing Ritual

1143 Daido Omata, Hofu, Yamaguchi

In the farming hamlet of Omata, on the Seto Inland Sea side of Yamaguchi, grown men in formal crested kimono sit facing

Festival Chugoku M

毎年5月3日・4日

Misasa Hanayu Festival & Jinsho Tug-of-War

Misasa Onsen town, Misasa, Tottori

The rope is made entirely of wild wisteria vine — two ropes, in fact, male and female, each eighty meters long and two t

Festival Chugoku S

例年4月中旬〜下旬（約2週間）

Shikoku Konpira Kabuki

Kanamaru-za (Old Konpira Grand Theatre), 1241 Otsu, Kotohira, Kagawa

Once a year, the oldest playhouse in Japan is used for what it was built for. Kotohira, in Kagawa, at the foot of the l